Please review my song contest website

Discussion in 'Websites' started by thomasdgr, Oct 14, 2010.

  1. #1
    I finished the 1st version of my website about song contests.

    The url is http://www.voteasong.com/

    All comments are welcome!

    Thank you
     
    thomasdgr, Oct 14, 2010 IP
  2. mr-cracker

    mr-cracker Active Member

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    #2
    hello, i liked your website. i've never seen any niche like that so far. i give it a big thump up
    good luck with it friend
     
    mr-cracker, Oct 14, 2010 IP
  3. henrycaballero

    henrycaballero Peon

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    #3
    It's doing good. Just add some readable articles about your website using your targeted keywords and it will be working really great. It is well indexed by yahoo and google. Try adding activity on delicious and twitter. In twitter it doesn't matter if you have many followers, it helps you get indexed in real time as soon as you post new pages. If you have tried visiting google trends you will see what I am talking about.
     
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    #4
    Its awesome did you design that site.
     
    superbSEO, Oct 15, 2010 IP
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    #5
    Very cool. Love the idea. Wondered how and who submitted the content so maybe there could be a little FAQ and have some info like the content which is currently in about us.
     
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  6. thomasdgr

    thomasdgr Active Member

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    Thank you all for your reviews and suggestions!

    @henrycaballero: I will follow your instructions, thank you!

    @superbSEO: Yes, I created that site from zero.

    @g3e: Content submitted by registered members. Registration is easy and free. Members have the ability to create contests through "Create contest" page. There is a form there with explanation on how to fill the contest data. I will consider a FAQ page, though!
     
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  7. Orgasmotopia

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    #7
    Hi there,

    I like the originality! and I like the logo (great design), and your slogan makes it clear what your site is all about

    I don't understand why it goes to a different page when i click i "like" something.. the song gets stopped! and I would've wanted to listen to and vote for all the other songs on your homepage..

    Another problem is that there's no incentive to vote.. so what if one song is 73% and one is 27%? I think the user would like to see more results from their input.. maybe put up a daily song winner section on the homepage? That way a repeat user is going to see "results"
     
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  8. thomasdgr

    thomasdgr Active Member

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    Hello Orgasmotopia,

    Thank you for your comments! We have the same thoughts!

    The part that the songs stop playing when you push the like button is next on schedule. I have knowledge of this.
    Also, homepage designed to display most popular contests of the day, but the website just started and there are not many votes yet. So, until the site gets some good amount of votes daily I made it display all time results. This will change in no time.
     
    thomasdgr, Oct 15, 2010 IP
  9. Jakeup

    Jakeup Peon

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    #9
    I suggest you adopt a different color scheme for the website.
     
    Jakeup, Oct 16, 2010 IP
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    #10
    I like any staff songs and music included.
    very useful and I like it.
     
    jvnvc_lksndr, Oct 16, 2010 IP
  11. mypartner

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    #11
    awesome design, i love this theme!
     
    mypartner, Oct 16, 2010 IP
  12. 4function

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    #12
    must changed your bg color.
     
    4function, Oct 16, 2010 IP
  13. thomasdgr

    thomasdgr Active Member

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    @Jakeup and 4function: Tried some backgrounds but didn't like the result.

    @jvnvc_lksndr and mypartner: Thank you for your positive comments!

    Site updated this weekend, you can now vote or post comments without stopping playback.
     
    thomasdgr, Oct 17, 2010 IP
  14. NettyJay

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    #14
    Hello,

    Well thought out niche - i like your website layout and logo design however as previously suggested to explore other colours - perhaps a darker purple it glows a little too much for me so much so i find it a bit hard to read the smaller text.

    As for the bg colour have you tried a charcoal grey, purple and charcoal grey work exceptionally well together (and you might like it)....

    I feel the footer looks out of place, being centred especially when the two links just above the footer don't align, these links are the 'Vote And Comment On This Contest' and 'View All Time Most Popular Contests' but thats just me i like things symmetrical.

    I hope my feedback has helped. =)
     
    NettyJay, Oct 17, 2010 IP
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    #15
    That a great idea for a site. The design looks good and the concept is easy to understand. Good luck
     
    colacola, Oct 17, 2010 IP
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    #16
    good design, i like this theme!

    nice collection

    very useful site
     
    sufiya_famida, Oct 17, 2010 IP
  17. thomasdgr

    thomasdgr Active Member

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    Thank you all for your feedback!

    NettyJay I will examine your suggestions...

    I am trying some other backgrounds because a lot of you suggested this.
     
    thomasdgr, Oct 18, 2010 IP
  18. makaroo.01

    makaroo.01 Greenhorn

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    #18
    nice design. you also have a pretty interesting site. but it would be interesting if all the videos randomly shuffle when we reload the site.
     
    makaroo.01, Oct 18, 2010 IP
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    #19
    Nice theme!!! I really love the design. Good thinking.
     
    kittyluver, Oct 18, 2010 IP
  20. thomasdgr

    thomasdgr Active Member

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    Thank you for your feedback.

    makaroo I don't want all videos to shuffle on main page. I think top voted contests must be on top. You can find a kind of random contests under suggestions in every contest page.
     
    thomasdgr, Oct 19, 2010 IP